He had the haunted look of the true humorist.
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William Rose Benét, Saturday Review of Literature, vol. XXX, no. 42, Oct. 15, 1949, p. 40.Will Cuppy
I agree about Shaw — he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
William Butler Yeats
Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.
Gene Wolfe
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.Lucy Larcom
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.
William Somerset Maugham
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